All experience is not created equal: Learning, adapting, and focusing in product portfolio management

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 315-335

  Eggers, J P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; dynamic capabilities; organizational learning; product development; product portfolio management

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES; EMPIRICAL TEST; EXPERIENCE BASE; MUTUAL FUNDS; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; PORTFOLIO OF NEW PRODUCTS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PORTFOLIO; PRODUCT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT; PRODUCT QUALITY;

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; INDUSTRY; INVESTMENTS;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84855449256     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.956     Document Type: Article

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